
Matt Mills
Louder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Metal Hammer and Prog, at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster. He’s got bylines in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, NME and many others, too. When he’s not writing, you’ll probably find him skydiving, scuba diving or coasteering.
Latest articles by Matt Mills

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: May 23 2025
By Rich Hobson published
Electric Callboy, Blackbraid, Malevolence and many others have devastated our eardrums with new tunes this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

The five least metal Metallica songs
By Matt Mills published
Not even having the word ‘metal’ in their name could stop the Four Horsemen from adventuring outside of their genre

Music agent Dave Shapiro and ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams die in San Diego plane crash
By Matt Mills published
Shapiro and Williams died in a crash that injured eight people on the ground and is presumed to have killed six overall

Ian Gillan is really, really glad Tony Iommi wants to remix Born Again, one of Black Sabbath’s most maligned albums
By Matt Mills published
Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in 1983, likens his album with the band to Spinal Tap

Metallica announce stacked UK and Europe tour with Gojira, Knocked Loose and more
By Matt Mills published
The biggest band in metal will be supported by a mammoth lineup when they hit Europe in summer 2026

A Judas Priest documentary co-directed by Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello is in the works
By Matt Mills published
The Brummie stars have announced The Ballad Of Judas Priest – produced by Iron Maiden, Rush and ZZ Top collaborators Banger Films – but kept tight-lipped regarding a release date

Former Megadeth guitarist says Dave Mustaine damaged his career by calling him a “liar”
By Matt Mills published
Chris Poland, who performed on Megadeth’s first two albums, likens being the subject of Mustaine’s ire to dragging around a “50-pound ball”

Joey Jordison’s former death metal band Sinsaenum are back, will release new album in tribute to late Slipknot drummer
By Matt Mills published
Sinsaenum – also featuring members of Kreator, Mayhem and others – will continue with Jordison’s old drum tech behind the kit

Wendy Dio remembers visiting Motörhead’s Lemmy “two hours before he died”
By Matt Mills published
The widow of Ronnie James Dio reveals that she was one of the last people to see Lemmy before he passed away in 2015

Watch live footage of Limp Bizkit playing an unreleased song in 1997
By Matt Mills published
The track, called Breaking My Back or Strain by fans, was played at shows in the Three Dollar Bill Y’all era but never officially came out

Listen to the final song by UK metalcore crusaders Ithaca
By Matt Mills published
Listen to the final song by UK metalcore crusaders Ithaca

Watch Trivium cover Steve’s Lava Chicken from the Minecraft Movie, because memes have ruined everyone’s brains
By Matt Mills published
The greatest use of a seven-string guitar in metal history

Every Paradise Lost album ranked from worst to best
By Matt Mills published
Paradise Lost have turned sadness into several different sonic forms. Here they are in reverse-order of quality.

Iron Maiden urge fans to keep their phones in their pockets during Run For Your Lives tour
By Matt Mills published
Iron Maiden urge fans to keep their phones in their pockets during upcoming Run For Your Lives tour

King Diamond offers update on first album since 2007
By Matt Mills published
King Diamond offers update on new solo album, says another single will “definitely” drop this year

Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it
By Matt Mills published
“We need to just kind of, like, maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh”

Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous
By Matt Mills published
Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell explains how he ended up on the soundtrack to horror blockbuster Sinners
By Matt Mills published
Alice In Chains’ guitarist/vocalist explains how a phone call from Metallica’s drummer got him involved with one of the most successful films of the year

The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind Megadeth stint
By Matt Mills published
King played guitar for Megadeth’s first five shows in 1984 – but the partnership was never going to last

Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is “gutted” to not be playing Black Sabbath’s final show: “I had no idea it was happening!”
By Matt Mills published
Judas Priest are one of the only veteran metal bands to not be playing Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell concert this summer. Rob Halford explains why.

"I had an idea for an album about people bottling Jesus's vomit."
By Matt Mills published
Rivers Of Nihil might be modern prog metal masters, but that doesn't mean they sign from the same hymn sheet as everyone else

Watch this death metal band marry two of their fans onstage during a concert
By Matt Mills published
Symphonic/death metal maximalists Fleshgod Apocalypse paused a show on their current North American tour to officiate a wedding

Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil wants to put out final recordings featuring Chris Cornell
By Matt Mills published
The band and the estate of late frontman Cornell have had legal disputes over the potential release of posthumous music
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